Now I realize that this blog has been rather heavy on Village topics in the last few months. Walgreen’s, the Library, etc. Well this is a topic that most of us who live in the village know a little about but I have to confess, I did not know enough about.

We all know there is a landfill on the east side of Perinton that rises fairly high and at first glance looks like a naturally occurring hill. Only naturally occurring hills do not grow. There is a proposal on the table to increase size of the landfill and raise it’s height by almost 160 feet. That is as high as a 16 story building. That is also on top of it’s current height.

I received an e-mail from Kevin P Gorman, VP Preserve Scenic Perinton Alliance, Inc. with this LINK to their web site. He told me that this topic will be discussed at the following meetings including one tomorrow night:

Conservation Board Meeting: 7:30PM, March 18

Zoning Board of Appeals Meeting: 7:30PM, March 24

Planning Board Meeting: 7:30PM, April 2

Town Board Meeting: 8PM, April 9

My experience with the Landfill is limited to driving past it and at times being stuck behind a truck hauling garbage through the village on a hot summer day. But I often travel to Waterloo as part of my job and pass the large landfill there and the smell there is atrocious. They even spray what seems to be an industrial strength air cleaner in an attempt at masking the smell.

I have not had enough time to form a strong opinion on this topic, some expansion may or may not be a good thing. But an increase in the height by 160 feet will make this landfill visible by many more residents. And how does this effect the quality of life in our town? How do we know what is being hauled in from across the state, this is not just local garbage. Would you be willing to pay a bit more in town taxes to keep the landfill at or near it’s current size?

I will not be able to attend this meeting but as always I urge anyone who has an opinion pro or con to participate in the process. And anyone who does attend, please comment here and let those of us who can not attend how this progresses.

If I have any of the facts wrong please let me know, I will post a correction.

The photo is from the Preserve Scenic Perinton Alliance, Inc. web site.

My e-mail for better or worse, bandanaman61@gmail.com.

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Gary Gocek grew up in Liverpool (central NY) and attended RIT (BS in CS). He has lived in or around Fairport for over 20 years. Gary now lives west of the village of Fairport with his wife, two cats and two guitars. He has two young-adult sons who graduated from FHS.

Gary works as a software developer and enjoys his family, music, ethnic heritage activities, church activities and DVDs-by-mail. He maintains family and other websites. After 9/11, he became a news junkie, gathering news from the D&C, TV, radio and the Internet. Gary says blogging is a natural extension, and for the D&C he hopes to "mix typical diary-like blog entries with humorous posts and comments on local politics."